Stepping onto the Minefield of Excommunication

Stepping onto the Minefield of Excommunication

February 2, 2019

We know from the teachings of the Catholic Church that angels are pure spirits. They do not have bodies, and they do not depend on any activity or matter for their existence. Every angel is an individual person who will never die. We ordinarily see the word “angel” applied to the pure spirits who remained faithful to God. The angels who did not remain faithful to God are commonly referred to as “devils.”

If a devil were to take on the form of a human, how do you think he would look? How would he behave? There was a time during the reign of Adolf Hitler that he was considered by many to be the devil incarnate.

The definition of “incarnate” is someone who is “in human form, embodied in flesh.” At the moment that the Son of God was conceived inside the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, He became incarnate — in human form, embodied in flesh.

It could be argued that the so-called Catholic governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, is the devil incarnate. On January 22, 2019 (the 46th anniversary of the infamous U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States), Governor Cuomo approved a new law in New York that had been voted on and passed by the New York State Assembly and Senate.

The new law, which was deceptively called the “Reproductive Health Act,” made it legal for any pregnant woman in New York to kill her unborn child, up until the moment of delivery. The new law also expanded the list of executioners who could be hired to do the killing, from only licensed doctors to any “healthcare practitioner.” The new law also removed protections that were in place to save babies who survive an abortion procedure, meaning that those babies can now be left on a table to die after birth.

When evil is not stopped dead in its tracks, it always continues to progressively get worse.

If what happened in New York — and what is currently happening in other states — is not stopped, the next wave of evil will be laws that give parents and the government the right to murder children and elderly people who are potential burdens on their family or society.

I watched a replay of a video that showed Governor Cuomo signing the abortion bill into law. When he signed it, he had a big smile on his face. He then declared, “Congratulations, the bill is signed!” He received a standing ovation accompanied by thunderous applause from the large crowd that was present for the signing.

The new law has stripped all fully developed unborn children in New York of their personhood. They are now nothing more than disposable property. That’s what slaves were before the Civil War — disposable property that was subject to the whims of their owners.

After Governor Cuomo approved the new law, several influential Catholics, Christians, and conservatives called on the Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, to excommunicate Cuomo from the Catholic Church. While Cardinal Dolan harshly condemned the actions of Governor Cuomo, he stated that excommunication was “not an appropriate response to a politician who supports or votes for legislation advancing abortion.”

I’m not going to give my opinion on whether Cardinal Dolan should have excommunicated Governor Cuomo, but I will say this: Whatever path Cardinal Dolan decided to take on the matter, he was walking onto a field of landmines. Lucifer, the brilliant and cunning leader of all the fallen angels always has a dual strategy in place to deal with men like Cardinal Dolan. If Cardinal Dolan had excommunicated Governor Cuomo, Lucifer and his followers would have seen to it that the power brokers would unleash a flurry of accusations and threats against Cardinal Dolan and the Catholic Church.

As a reminder, the “power brokers” are the men and women who are in control of Hollywood, the mainstream media, the institutions of higher education, the public school system, the multinational corporations, the high-tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Netflix, and our federal, state, and local governments.

If Cardinal Dolan had excommunicated Cuomo from the Catholic Church, the power brokers would have immediately pushed for the removal of the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church, its agencies, and its healthcare institutions. They would have screamed at the top of their lungs that the Church has no business threatening politicians. Some of them would have also surreptitiously called for violence against Cardinal Dolan, the Catholic Church, Catholic priests, and members of the Catholic Church.

This is how bad things have gotten in America today. There was a time when Catholics and Christians were left alone to practice their faith and live their lives in peace. Those times are gone forever. There is now constant pressure that is being exerted by the power brokers to bully, intimidate, and force those of us who believe in Jesus Christ to comply with their evil plans.

So what did Lucifer’s agents do after Cardinal Dolan refused to excommunicate Governor Cuomo? They instigated multiple attacks against him and his fellow bishops. They (again) branded the bishops as impotent cowards who are no longer willing or capable of leading the Catholic Church in the way that Christ intended them to lead. The power brokers will never give up in their efforts to completely destroy the influence and credibility of the spiritual leaders of the Catholic Church.

When I was preparing to write this article, I stumbled upon a 2012 National Review article that was written by Michael Walsh. The title to the article was “What Would Dagger John Do?” The article started out by stating:

In 1844, faced with a Nativist threat to burn down St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral (at Prince and Mott streets), John J. Hughes, the Irish-born bishop (and later first archbishop) of New York, gathered several thousand of his mostly Irish parishioners and deployed them around the church. Any attack on the cathedral, warned the man known as “Dagger John,” would be repulsed with force. The Nativists backed down.

During the Civil War, Hughes undertook a secret mission to Europe at the personal request of Abraham Lincoln, to rally support for the Union cause and keep Britain from entering the war on the side of the Confederacy. This he did in part by explaining the facts of the life to the English: that they’d have no luck in raising troops in restive, famine-stricken Ireland to fight against America, and a great deal of trouble if they tried.

Those were the days of the two-fisted Irish clergy, who understood their dual American roles as both the spiritual leaders of their people and — when necessary — political figures as well. But those days are long gone (Cardinal O’Connor was the last of the line).

So who will protect the American Church from the latest threat ….

The “latest threat” that Walsh was referring to was the Obama Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services’ edict that required religious medical institutions to offer free birth control, sterilization, and morning after pills as part of their employees’ healthcare plans.

Based on what recently happened to Nicholas Sandmann, the 16-year-old Catholic boy whose “crime” was to smile and not back down from an anti-life protester, after which he and his family received death threats, if Cardinal Dolan had excommunicated Governor Cuomo, he and his fellow Catholics would have received threats from hundreds of local anti-Catholic terrorists. In addition to threatening physical harm, the terrorists would have threatened to burn down St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

If that had happened, do you think Cardinal Dolan would have been able to quickly round up several thousand Catholic men in New York to surround and protect the cathedral and its members for the next several days? Would he be able to get enough men to volunteer to protect the other Catholic Churches in New York?

If your local Catholic Church and its members were threatened by local anti-Catholic terrorists, would you respond to your bishop’s request to stand guard and protect your parish from the local terrorists? Would your spouse, parents, children, or family members have a say in the matter? Would you jeopardize the future stability and security of your family by putting your life on the line?

While we’re always quick to condemn others as being cowards, when push comes to shove, most of us would behave the same way as the person we’ve condemned.

In addition to New York, seven other states — Alaska, Colorado, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont — as well as the District of Columbia allow abortions up until the time of the delivery of a child. In addition to the eight states that now allow for the murder of fully developed unborn children, there are several other states that are considering new laws that will allow the same thing.

Unless we can somehow get an amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed that provides that life begins at conception, there is going to come a time in our country when there will be blood in the streets over this issue. It may even get to the point where there’s another civil war in which hundreds of thousands of Americans will die in order to protect the lives of unborn babies and children who have been born but are being legally murdered by their parents and their government.

Every one of us should be praying for a miracle that we can get a constitutional amendment passed in the near future.

2 Comments

Harry, the one thing I know to help such situations as this is to PRAY, and
I am committed to prayer as the main (and only) way of reaching God! Thank you for all the research you are doing to bring such topics out in the open. Blessings to you and love. Sister Roberta

New York had legalized abortion before Roe v. Wade which legalizes abortion throughout pregnancy. The new law is a bulwark against the possibility that the Supreme Court will strike down Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court should reverse that decision. http://lincolninpeoria.blogspot.com/2018/11/why-supreme-court-should-reverse-its.html . Then we can start tearing down the bulwarks holding legalized abortion up, state by state.